Despite increased efforts given to the field of safety management, the number of accidents is continuing to rise in the construction industry. Now with the help of Building Information Modeling (BIM) technology, incident rates may dramatically decrease. However, there is little or no information available to be utilized by the safety officers and designers in the BIM-based tools for the training and design works respectively in Malaysia. The main aim of this paper is to develop a framework to aid in giving comprehensive safety training to workers and to gather all the necessary information that can be used in BIM-based tools for the selected types of accidents at the design stage. The research will be carried out by using the triangulation method. The findings of the research will guide safety officers in giving comprehensive safety training in a 3D virtual environment. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021.